CSC updates collected APC data for several Finnish institutions

The CSC – IT Center for Science has updated its data, providing more APC data for Finnish HEIs.

The CSC is a non-profit government enterprise which provides IT support and services to Finnish academia and research institutes. It operates VIRTA, a centralized service tasked with collecting publication data from HEIs. VIRTA may also optionally collect cost data on OA publishing (APCs and BPCs), this data is made available to OpenAPC where permission was granted by the data providers.

Contact Person for the CSC is Ville Hämäläinen.

Cost data

The updated data set provided by the CSC covers publication fees for 2,977 articles published between 2017 and 2023, replacing the previous CSC data. Total expenditure amounts to 5,559,689€ and the average fee is 1,868€.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 812 1254884 1545
Elsevier BV 422 665652 1577
Frontiers Media SA 355 745581 2100
Springer Nature 334 777746 2329
Informa UK Limited 115 282185 2454
IEEE 102 164070 1609
Wiley-Blackwell 86 247084 2873
Copernicus GmbH 57 98003 1719
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 49 91668 1871
American Physical Society (APS) 48 101912 2123
IOP Publishing 46 90855 1975
Oxford University Press (OUP) 39 104222 2672
SAGE Publications 34 51982 1529
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 29 48095 1658
AIP Publishing 28 67693 2418
Cambridge University Press (CUP) 25 57412 2296
JMIR Publications Inc. 25 57247 2290
BioResources 21 27287 1299
AAAS 20 64890 3244
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 19 18332 965
Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 15 33755 2250
American Chemical Society (ACS) 14 36964 2640
BMJ 14 30850 2204
Optica Publishing Group 14 27025 1930
Finnish Society of Forest Science 13 11500 885
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 13 14217 1094
American Society for Microbiology 12 31453 2621
Hindawi Publishing Corporation 12 21628 1802
The Royal Society 11 18550 1686
Audio Engineering Society 8 7877 985
American Geophysical Union (AGU) 7 14763 2109
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) 6 20258 3376
American Astronomical Society 5 15320 3064
Canadian Science Publishing 5 17867 3573
IOS Press 5 5020 1004
Pensoft Publishers 5 4399 880
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 5 17002 3400
Ubiquity Press, Ltd. 5 3571 714
American Physiological Society 4 12385 3096
Intellect 4 4716 1179
Mary Ann Liebert Inc 4 14306 3576
Stockholm University Press 4 2424 606
Virtus Interpress 4 2130 532
American Dairy Science Association 3 5465 1822
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 3 5684 1895
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) 3 5215 1738
Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library 3 1050 350
EDP Sciences 3 2105 702
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 3 8577 2859
Institute of Mathematical Statistics 3 1765 588
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 3 5956 1985
Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. 3 1181 394
Termedia Sp. z.o.o. 3 1200 400
The Company of Biologists 3 11326 3775
EARLI 2 400 200
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2 6853 3426
Human Kinetics 2 3926 1963
Informing Science Institute 2 130 65
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE) 2 740 370
IWA Publishing 2 3230 1615
lnternational Electronic Journal of Elementary Education 2 661 330
MIS Quarterly 2 4754 2377
MIT Press - Journals 2 2592 1296
MyJove Corporation 2 7484 3742
Optical Society of America (OSA) 2 3555 1778
Research Trends, Ltd. 2 873 436
sPage.direcT 2 1504 752
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 1 4707 4707
American Medical Association (AMA) 1 2875 2875
American Society for Clinical Investigation 1 5010 5010
American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) 1 727 727
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) 1 1220 1220
American Society of Hematology 1 2904 2904
American Society of Neuroradiology (ASNR) 1 692 692
American Speech Language Hearing Association 1 1812 1812
American Vacuum Society 1 2025 2025
AOSIS 1 742 742
ASME International 1 2576 2576
ASTES Journal 1 350 350
Austin Publishing Group 1 1046 1046
BioScientifica 1 2097 2097
Boffin Access 1 1200 1200
Brill 1 380 380
Bristol University Press 1 1741 1741
Center for Transportation Studies 1 951 951
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 1 1923 1923
Computers, Materials and Continua (Tech Science Press) 1 1190 1190
Consulting and Training Center Key 1 100 100
De Gruyter 1 1190 1190
e-Century Publishing Corporation 1 1718 1718
Edinburgh University Press 1 1110 1110
Emerald 1 2648 2648
Equinox Publishing 1 1841 1841
Forest Products Society 1 1500 1500
Future Science, LTD 1 1509 1509
Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences 1 300 300
IGI Global 1 2300 2300
Inderscience Publishers 1 2471 2471
Inter-Research Science Center 1 2232 2232
International Journal of Technology 1 480 480
International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG) 1 600 600
International Society of Musculoskeletal and Neuronal Interactions 1 250 250
International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) 1 2184 2184
ISEKI Food Association 1 400 400
JVE International Ltd. 1 500 500
Lexxion Verlag 1 1488 1488
Medwin Publishers 1 1216 1216
Mohr Siebeck 1 902 902
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology 1 843 843
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine 1 820 820
North American Business Press 1 500 500
Pacini Editore 1 300 300
PAGEPress Publications 1 416 416
PeerJ 1 1365 1365
Philosophy Documentation Center 1 1197 1197
Project MUSE 1 2842 2842
REF Press 1 430 430
Resilience Alliance, Inc. 1 1429 1429
Rockefeller University Press 1 2352 2352
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS 1 1658 1658
Schweizerbart 1 1490 1490
Science Publishing Group 1 884 884
Society for Neuroscience 1 2493 2493
Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research 1 497 497
Thomas Telford Ltd. 1 2132 2132
University of California Press 1 1016 1016
University of Georgia 1 340 340
University of Pitesti 1 120 120
University of Uludag 1 1750 1750
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University 1 702 702

Overview

A detailed analysis of the contributed data provides the following overview:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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Fachhochschule Südwestfalen joins OpenAPC

We welcome the Fachhochschule Südwestfalen as new contributing institution!

The University Library is in charge of the University’s Publishing Fund.

An initial data set on APC expenditures and on articles published under the German DEAL agreements with Wiley and Springer Nature for the 2021 and 2022 period has been kindly made available to OpenAPC.

Contact Person is Vlatko Momirovski.

Cost data

The initial data set provided by the Fachhochschule Südwestfalen covers publication fees for 18 articles, total expenditure amounts to 36,889€ and the average fee is 2,049€. Please note that articles published in hybrid journals under the DEAL agreements are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s transformative agreements data set.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
MDPI AG 9 17414 1935
Elsevier BV 5 11026 2205
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 3 6448 2149
Springer Nature 1 2001 2001

Overview

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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University of Konstanz reports its 2021 APC and BPC expenditures

The University of Konstanz has provided its APC and BPC expenditures for the 2021 period.

The Communication, Information, Media Centre (KIM) is in charge of the University’s Open Access Publishing Fund, which receives support under the DFG’s Open Access Publication Funding Programme.

Contact person is Andreas Kirchner.

Cost data

The new data set covers publication fees for 83 articles, total expenditure amounts to 164,198€ and the average fee is 1,978€.

The following table provides an overview. Please note that BPCs are not included in this list, as they are aggregated in OpenAPC’s BPC dataset.

  Articles Fees paid in EURO Mean Fee paid
Frontiers Media SA 26 45340 1744
Springer Nature 21 48835 2325
MDPI AG 13 23112 1778
Wiley-Blackwell 4 7038 1760
American Physical Society (APS) 3 5609 1870
Oxford University Press (OUP) 3 5956 1985
Elsevier BV 2 5230 2615
Optica Publishing Group 2 5181 2590
AIP Publishing 1 2380 2380
ALTEX Edition 1 2000 2000
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1 5051 5051
Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 1 1717 1717
IOP Publishing 1 1534 1534
JMIR Publications Inc. 1 1578 1578
Open Library of the Humanities 1 457 457
Public Library of Science (PLoS) 1 1991 1991
Walter de Gruyter GmbH 1 1190 1190

Overview

With the recent contribution included, the overall APC data for Konstanz now looks as follows:

Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)

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Average costs per year (in EURO)

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Average costs per publisher (in EURO)

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